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The second round of the 2025/26 Uganda Premier League (UPL) season gets underway this week, on Thursday, February 12, with all 16 teams in action. This, the match-day 16 will be highlighted by the double header at Nakivubo stadium on Saturday, February 14. First, Express will face Entebbe UPPC, while URA FC will follow with an encounter against SC Villa. It is difficult to downplay how significant the Lugogo derby between NEC FC and KCCA FC will be at this time. The same would be said about the Bul FC clash with Vipers SC at the Fufa Technical centre in…

Rugby Africa president and World Rugby executive board member, Herbert Mensah has urged Ugandan authorities to reconsider the country’s sporting priorities and channel more resources into rugby development instead of concentrating heavily on football. “You can spend half of the taxpayers’ money on football, but you won’t win the World Cup,” he said. He maintained that with targeted and increased investment, Uganda could achieve quicker progress in rugby than in football. Speaking after the 17th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Rugby Africa at Kabira Country Club in Kampala on Friday, Mensah said countries such as Uganda should emulate South Africa…

The Uganda men’s basketball team now turn their focus to the next round of fixtures in the 2027 Fiba World Cup qualifiers. Following their three losses in the first round of games against African champions, Angola 68- 90 on February 26, Mali 73-84 on February 28, and Egypt 52-91 on March 1, the Silverbacks will be facing the aforementioned teams again in July. However, Uganda will go into that round of games bottom of the log. Yet, to qualify among the 12 teams that will compete in the third round of games, Uganda must not finish bottom of their group.…

The football season in Europe is entering its decisive stage. Any mistake can be very costly, so teams play to their full potential, and the intrigue remains until the final minutes. For fans, this is a time of bright emotions and important matches. You can follow the main events in European football with 1xBet. The main thing to remember is that betting should be responsible and not to your detriment. The best sports betting site 1xbet places great emphasis on responsible betting and offers its users a wide selection of sporting events. Paris Saint-Germain vs AS Monaco, March 6 Just recently, these teams met…

On any given afternoon, in classrooms across Uganda and beyond, literature teachers are confronting a quiet but profound shift. The chalkboard is still there. The dog-eared novels still sit on desks. But in students’ pockets, and increasingly in teachers’ lesson plans, lives a new presence: artificial intelligence. In recent years, AI has emerged as what many describe as a “transformative force” in education, particularly in the teaching of literature. Tools such as ChatGPT, DeepSeek AI, Next AI, AI Seek, Gemini and others are now part of the academic vocabulary. Teachers are experimenting with them to make lessons more engaging, more…

Inside the halls of the Raxio Data Centre in Namanve, Uganda quietly made a statement about its digital future. Servers blinked behind reinforced glass. Cooling systems hummed softly. Engineers guided guests past rows of neatly stacked hardware, the physical backbone of something less visible but increasingly vital: data. On Thursday, Uganda officially launched ABQ Cloud, a sovereign cloud platform designed to keep the country’s data within its borders and reduce reliance on foreign tech giants. The event, held at the Deep Tech Hub, brought together officials from the Science, Technology and Innovation Office of the President (STI-OP), alongside executives from…

Uganda’s Vice President, Jessica Alupo, has warned that technological advancement without strong ethical grounding could be harmful to society, urging graduates to combine innovation with integrity as the country’s education system embraces artificial intelligence. Alupo made the remarks while presiding over the 16th graduation ceremony of St. Lawrence University, where she serves as chancellor. The ceremony, held on Thursday as the institution marked its 19th anniversary, saw more than 456 students awarded certificates, diplomas, bachelor’s degrees, postgraduate diplomas and master’s degrees. Addressing the graduates, Alupo said universities must ensure that students become innovators and responsible leaders in the digital age…

The fighting occurred near Sake town, about 27 kilometres from Goma City, North Kivu province. Lt Col Ndjike Kaiko Guilaume, Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) spokesperson for North Kivu said that the army and coalition managed to stop M23 rebels from advancing to capture Sake town in Masisi territory. But later on Thursday night, the M23 rebels’ political spokesperson Lawrence Kanyuka released a statement accusing FARDC soldiers and coalition of targeting densely populated areas with bombs. Kanyuka claimed that the bombs dropped by FARDC soldiers and coalition left 10 civilians dead and an unspecified number of…

March 23 Movement (M23) rebels have claimed they released and handed over more than 5,000 soldiers from the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC) to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) as part of confidence-building efforts aimed at ending the conflict with the government in Kinshasa. According to the rebel group, the soldiers were captured across various battlefronts in North Kivu and South Kivu provinces. The movement said that after the fall of Goma in January 2025, thousands of captured FARDC soldiers were taken to their camp in Rumangabo. In a statement released on…

I will never forget that day a senior editor at one of Kampala’s leading current affairs outlets said to me “I have no doubts that you, Yusuf, are capable of wearing a bomb and blowing up these offices.” This was a man with whom we had often debated philosophy, politics, literature, democracy, the structure of the English sentence, the enlightenment, among others. He is by all standard a fine gentleman. But on the topic of terrorism, Islam, continued colonialism, the Middle East, he would only regurgitate those tired stereotypes. I asked him why he thought I would blow up their…